Zofia Terné & Ork. Henryka Golda [Henryk Gold's Orchestra] – Świat to tylko twoje oczy (The Word Is Nothing But Your Eyes), Valse-chanson (Nicholls-Oldlen), Odeon 1932 (Polish)

NOTE: In the 1920/30s, Zofia Terné belonged to the Top Five of Polish prewar cabaret artists and singers (with Ordonówna, Pogorzelska, Zimińska, Modzelewska). Born Wiera Chajter to the Polish/ Jewish wealthy merchant family in Równe (today Ukraine), she completed studies in the renowned Conservatory in Lwów in the class of piano and solo singing. Seen, during the school performance by famous Polish poet and composer Marian Hemar, she was invited by him to present in Warsaw his beautiful song “Tyle jest miast…” (There Are So Many Cities In The World) devoted to their beloved city of Lwów (Hemar was born in Lwów). The song became later Zofia Terne’s trademark. In 1927, she started performing on stage of the most popular Warsaw artistic cabaret Qui Pro Quo until its collapse in 1931.Through the 1930s she continued career singing on stages of the literary cabarets and artistic cafés in Warsaw, such as Banda, Stara Banda or Cyrulik Warszawski, also recording for Syrena-Electro and Odeon and performing in the musical movies, however her minute posture caused a significant pullback to her film career. On 2nd Sept 1939 she participated in the opening show of the new political cabaret Figaro, with numbers referring to the approaching danger of war, with many satirized texts about Third Reich and Adolf Hitler. Therefore, Zofia Terné was arrested immediately after the Gestapo was installed in Warsaw in October 1939. Fortunately, her Jewish origin was not detected by the Germans and her performing in the program with merely lyrical songs was not considered as political. She was released with a warrant of staying away from Warsaw. Zofia returned to her hometown of Równe and decided to flee to the USSR, afraid of being arrested again. She survived the Holocaust as the actress of Polish Émigré Army theatre in Kazakhstan and later, traveling with it from the Soviet Union via Iran, Palestine to Italy and Great Britain. After 1945, she became artistically active in London, performing on stages of the Polish theatres in UK, France, Canada and USA, giving recitals for the Polish Section of BBC and collaborating with Free Europe Broadcast in Munich. Although popular and loved by her audience again, Zofia Terne was unhappy in her personal life and died in London in 1987 in oblivion and loneliness.
The slideshow for this lovely lyrical song with poetical text written by the fine Polish poet Julian Tuwim (pseudonym: Oldlen) are selected portraits by several Polish painting masters of the 19-20th centuries.

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